Jordan Daily – During the first six months of this year, 3,162 Syrian refugees left Jordan to return to their homeland, according to data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). This represents a 63 percent increase compared to the same period in 2023.
The UNHCR data also showed that 19,729 Syrian refugees returned from Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, and Iraq to Syria in 2023, up from 16,529 in the same period in 2023, an increase of 19.36 percent.
Official data indicates that Jordan has hosted more than 1.3 million Syrians since the start of the Syrian crisis in 2011. Of these, over 628,000 Syrian refugees are registered with the UNHCR.